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its tortion bar with coil struts moved the tube from back to under middle and thiss made it 3 ft shorter its exacty the same length as width perfect square handels wicked 31 bogger paddles 2.5 single cam turbo with forged pistons 10 psi of boost 4 speed auto converted to 2 speed locked rear diff high stall with 4.44 gears she eats up the beach hit 110 on speedo in 2cd and never hitt rev limiter shes ready for dragrace season

Nakusp playing on the beach

Water pump or thermostat gasket look strait up at waterpump from bottom and look for coolant coming from weep hole of water pump

Use the ones for a 2.2 b or forester oil cooler has nice 90 hoses that are very close i used those for my 1980 brat other day looks stock had to put a joiner right at firewall

have a 77 dl for parts

I surface those heads take about 20 min and come out spanky

New rod berrings and some mains to lol

Had anuther one yesterday 01 outback when i pulled the intake to do heads the injectors just kept leaking feul they where not holding preshure and whouldhave been dumping gas when car is shut off or at wrong time

that oring causes greif all day i know the sound by heart iv'e seen it at least 5 times in a year ushaly happens when the pan gets whacked

Combustion is esacpeing from head bolts creaps through the head studs and comes out those bolt holes if you took head off you will find that head gasket was leaking into head stud a retourque of heads may help or headgasket

Here a neat trick if you take a rear spring from loyale and put it inside of your sping and put her back together and c thiss works good spring inside a spring will give you twice the load cappacity makes it a bitt stiff

over fill it if you like the trans has a vent will dump off the exsess but messy will not hurt trans

One note the screen fillter on valve body has a oring on it if its not siting exactly right will suck air in that spot makes the tranny whine because of airated oil check thiss oring commen for pan to get whacked and tilt the fillter so oring dosent seat properly

anuther comen problem on the end of the main shaft is a large 34 mm nut that holds the gears to the shaft it likes to come loose and alows the gears to move need to take off awd and tail shaft retiten the nut and should be fixed should be done before nut falls off and gets chewed up this is not a hard fix unless awd is damaged. Should check the end play of input shaft at same time

The 2.2 i just did the timing belt was a bitt tight had to grind a tiny bitt off end of addjuster to get it in i used 2.2 b gaskets with phase 2 heads. In the offroad subies I do we mix and match alot but you must have an eye for deatails one differance thats overlooked and its toast. And i cant say thiss enuff CHANGE THE ROD BERRINGS thiss is any subaru moters weakest link and when they fail the whole moter fails.

I can hear the bad ones when they start cold if it is knocky for more than 1 second when it starts rod berrings are done the key is to time the oil light how long it takes to turn off when starting engine a new engine makes no sounds when starting and oil light is off before it starts. Any knocking on startup is a problem [not piston slap rod knocking ] till it makes oil preshure theese moters give lots of warning before they go you just have to talk to it.

I tourque them exsesively havent broke one yet 150 lbs min

chemicals dont fix problems worn is worn. Put your money into fixing the problem not throwing cemicals at it.

Here in the land of rusty subarus a seized caliper is a dayly acurancae any mosture in the piston and its done

Forward clutch pack fried or band soft part rebiuld is your next step. or deul range 5 speed

There abosulotly sick work very good I like the mix and match to gain power its nice to have every subaru ej engine apart on floor so i can c the differences.

the best 2.5 is the 95-96 with big pistons the aluminum is cast like the 2.2 b bitt different quality of casting and the biger pistons are not as prone to slap

Make shure you replace the oring on input shaft very importantat

Hey at least you know your injectors are moving feul but mabee there not stoping had one when i did the heads the injectors kept driping feul after engine was shut off intake was still atached to car and it just sat there driping feul the injectors were faulty a problem like thiss whould make for bad malaige would use gas just sitting you can get bad milage not even driving

Low / reverse clutch pack is very last part in trans at very bottom of case if the reverse pack is gone will have no reverse and low wont work properly tourque converters only fail when installed inproperly but the orings that seal tourque converter fail alot and are easaly damaged